City of Heroes Optioned for Movie, Television 39
The Sci-fi Channel site has word that Cryptic Studios' City of Heroes title has been optioned as a movie or television series. The rights were picked up by Tom DeSanto, producer for the upcoming Transformers film. The plan (such as it is) is to make a motion picture, and then transfer the series to a TV format. The original news is from the industry trade Variety, but that article doesn't appear to be available online yet.
Sci-Fi Channel, huh? (Score:4, Funny)
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Really, come to think of it, I should just go through the Monster Manual and write a treatment for each monster in alphabetical order for pitches.
Give me something productive to do until January so I don
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And it shall be called... (Score:3, Funny)
I FOR ONE.... (Score:2, Funny)
On 2nd thought... (Score:1)
Why license the City of Heroes IP? (Score:2)
Color me baffled.
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Re:Why license the City of Heroes IP? (Score:5, Informative)
Statesman is not just Superman with a different outfit. For one thing, he started out a dying, desperate criminal mastermind plundering across post-WWI for magical artifacts to cure him of being exposed to mustard gas in World War I.
Just because you might not be familiar with their IP, doesn't mean there isn't something interesting to use.
The "world" of City of Heroes is very interesting and worth of expanding onto the big-screen, in my opinion.
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Mystery Men? (Score:1)
Either way, I can't see a City of Heroes movie/series turning out a whole lot differently.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Edlund [wikipedia.org]
who was/is also a writer/producer on stuff like Firefly and The Venture Bros.
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Both plotlines seem quite different to CoH though, and there seems to be endless room in Hollywood for more comic-book spinoffs. I don't doubt we'll see something there. Hey, it's gotta be better than Doom: The Movie, right?
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While I'll be the first to admit "The Hulk" had it's sucky parts - it was also based on the early Hulk comics, and many people were expecting the Bill Bixby version.
CoH movie? (Score:5, Funny)
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CoX: License to make money? (Score:1)
Like the comic! No, wait, that's had two different publishers run screaming from it after a year.
Like the tabletop RPG! No, wait, that was two poorly developed sourcebooks for a lousy D20 wannabe.
Like the novels? Yeah, that's it-- those must be popular, because I've never seen them on the shelves!
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Not interested. (Score:2)
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Jesus Christ (Score:2)
Current SuperHero Trend... (Score:2)